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In Chapter 10 in Reading With Meaning by Debbie Miller, she reminds us of the importance in teaching students to read for specific information to their questions, and in Determining Importance in Nonfiction text.

Unlike determing importance in fiction, where readers identify themes in stories, make inferences, predict, and use what they know about narrative text to distinguish important from unimportant information, readers begin to "read to learn" in nonfiction text.

In Chapter 10, Debbie teaches us the importance of:
  • Modeling Differences Between Fiction and Nonfiction pg. 144
  • Noticing and Remembering When We Learn Something New pg. 147
  • Convention notebooks pg. 148
  • Locating Specific Information pg. 150
  • Evidence of Understanding and Understanding pg. 152

Determining Importance Poster:



Into the book lessons

Texts for Determing Importance in Nonfiction Text

Julie Lorusso's lesson plan


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